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Identification Game


Can you identify the below flowers and pollinators? I bet Phloeonomus can. Can you?

Please Note

  • Placing the mouse pointer over the drawing will reveal the answer!
  • If the hand appears when placing the mouse pointer over a drawing, then clicking will reveal more information.

Bearded Sugarbushes

Green Sugarbush - Protea coronata Black-beard Sugarbush - Protea lepidocarpodendron Pink Sugarbush - Protea stokoei Narrow-leaf Sugarbush - Protea neriifolia Grey-leaf Sugarbush - Protea laurifolia Queen Sugarbush - Protea magnifica Red Sugarbush - Protea grandiceps Strap-leaf Sugarbush - Protea lorifolia Brown-beard Sugarbush - Protea speciosa Saw-edge Sugarbush - Protea holosericea

Fireworks Pincushions

Rocket Pincushion - Leucospermum reflexum Grey-leaf Fountain Pincushion - Leucospermum grandiflorum Silver-Leaf Wheel Pincushion - Leucospermum formosum Kloof Fountain Pincushion - Leucospermum gueinzii Nardouw Fountain Pincushion - Leucospermum praemorsum Catherine Wheel Pincushion - Leucospermum catherinae

Pagodas

Common Pagoda - Mimetes cuculatus Splendid Silver Pagoda - Mimetes splendidis Matchstick Pagoda - Mimetes hottentoticus Marsh Pagoda - Mimetes hirtus Threeflower Pagoda - Mimetes pauciflorus

Spiderheads

Blushing Bride - Serruria florida Spindly Spiderhead - Serruria heterophylla Bearded Spiderhead - Serruria phylecoides Common Pin Spiderhead - Serruria fasciflora Longstalk Spiderhead - Serruria elongata

Conebushes

Spinningtop Conebush - Leucadendron rubrum Common Sunshine Conebush - Leucadendron salignum Sickleleaf Conebush - Leucadendron xanthoconus Common Stream Conebush - Leucadendron salicifolium

Ha, ha - What are these?

Flats Silkypuff - Diastella proteoides Marsh Rose - Orothamnus zeyheri

Birds

 Orangebreasted Sunbird - Nectarinia violacea Malachite Sunbird - Nectarinia famosa
Gurney's Sugarbird - Promerops gurneyi Cape Sugarbird - Promerops cafer

Insects

Rove Beetle Scarab Beetle Butterfly - Lycaenidae Blues or Coppers Fly

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